Capital punishment Quote by Tony Campolo

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the…

— Oswald Chambers

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to…

— Oswald Chambers

“It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you talk about…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history…

— Daniel Webster

“These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the…

— Oswald Chambers

Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal…

— Stellan Skarsgard

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

— Barack Obama

“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’ disciples, it…

— Rubel Shelly

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

— Charles Spurgeon

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

— George Whitefield